Sharmini Aphrodite was born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Her short stories and writing on literature, art, and history have appeared online and in print. She is the editor-in-chief of SUSPECT, a journal of Asian literature and art. She holds an MA in History from Nanyang Technological University and is currently pursuing a joint PhD in Southeast Asian studies (National University of Singapore) and History (King’s College London). Her current academic project focuses on indigeneity, state-making, and more in twentieth-century Sabah, while her research interests include agricultural histories, orality, and the history of revolutionary Christianity in the Global South. Her short story collection The Unrepentant was published in November 2025 by Gaudy Boy.